12-47-406, Wholesaler's License
(1) (a) A wholesaler's liquor license shall be issued to persons selling vinous or spirituous liquors at wholesale for the following purposes only:
(I) To maintain and operate one or more warehouses in this state to handle vinous or spirituous liquors;
(II) To take orders for vinous and spirituous liquors at any place and deliver vinous and spirituous liquors on orders previously taken to any place if the licensee has procured a wholesaler's liquor license and the place where orders are taken and delivered is a place regularly licensed pursuant to the provisions of this article;
(III) To package vinous and spirituous liquors that a licensed importer has legally transported into Colorado or that a licensed manufacturer has legally produced in Colorado.
(b) A wholesaler's beer license shall be issued to persons selling malt liquors at wholesale who designate to the state licensing authority on their application the territory within which the licensee may sell the designated products of any brewer as agreed upon by the licensee and the brewer of such products for the following purposes only:
(I) To maintain and operate warehouses and one salesroom in this state to handle malt liquors to be denominated a wholesale beer store;
(II) To take orders for malt liquors at any place within the territory designated on the license application and deliver malt liquors on orders previously taken to any place within the designated geographical territory, if the licensee has procured a wholesaler's beer license and the place where orders are taken and delivered is a place regularly licensed pursuant to the provisions of this article.
(c) Each license shall be separate and distinct, but any person may secure both licenses upon the payment in advance of both fees provided in this article.
(d) All malt, vinous, and spirituous liquors purchased by any licensee under this section, and all malt, vinous, and spirituous liquors shipped into this state by or to any such licensee, shall be placed in the physical possession of such licensee at the licensee's warehouse facilities prior to delivery to persons holding licenses under this article.
(e) (I) A brewer or importer licensed pursuant to this article shall not sell malt liquors to a wholesaler without having a written contract with such wholesaler that designates the specific products of such brewer or importer to be sold by the wholesaler and that establishes the territory within which the wholesaler may sell the designated products.
(II) A brewer or importer shall not contract with more than one wholesaler to sell the products of such brewer or importer within the same territory.
(2) It is unlawful for any licensed wholesaler or any person, partnership, association, organization, or corporation interested financially in or with a licensed wholesaler to be interested financially, directly or indirectly, in the business of any person licensed to sell at retail pursuant to this article.
(3) It is unlawful for a licensed wholesaler of vinous or spirituous liquors or any person, partnership, association, organization, or corporation interested financially in or with such a wholesaler to be interested financially in the business of any licensed manufacturer or importer of vinous or spirituous liquors; except that any such financial interest that occurred on or before July 1, 1969, shall be lawful.